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Elderly people in Gaza with orange Stars of David. (AP)
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Chrildren will orange stars and raised hands are expelled from Atzmona. (AP)
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A protester gives a Nazi salute to black-shirted expulsion forces after being forcibly ejected from the Kfar Darom synagogue. (AP)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners August 24, 2005 |
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On Wednesday, a right wing group announced that it planned to create a "Holocaust museum" so that evacuated communities in Jewish Gaza will be remembered. The group, The International Headquarters to Save the Land and People of Israel, intends to display photos, videos, and memorials in the museum and to have former residents of Gush Katif as tour guides.
One of the museum's co-founders, Rabbi Shalom Volpe, released a statement proclaiming that the families evacuated from Gush Katif experienced "truly a Holocaust" and that another one should be avoided, that's why we must remember what happened.
Another representative, David Druckerman, told Reuters, "With all due respect to Yad Vashem [the national Israeli Holocaust museum], it looks like we haven't learned the lessons of the Holocaust."
The leader of the Shinui secular party, Yosef Lapid, a survivor of the Holocaust in Germany, said, "It is pathetic that people are warping history to get ahead in politics. They [The Headquarters] call the IDF the SS, and compare people living in hotels to people murdered in gas chambers."
Anti-expulsion protesters and residents being expelled from their homes used Nazi-era imagery repeatedly during the pullout. Many activists, mostly kids, pinned orange stars of David to their shirts to signify the last time Jews were forced out of their homes.
Protesters had shouted at soldiers, "How can you follow these orders? You know the last time soldiers said they were 'just following orders'! The Holocaust!" Many cried out, calling soldiers.
The organization promises that the museum will be erected in Jerusalem soon.
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